Guided by the principle “Rich in Knowledge = Rich in Life,” TOVA NUTS™ is a sculptural invention by TOVA: a walnut-shaped artwork with a painting held inside the shell. The nut gives the work its logic: it protects the core and gives knowledge a physical form.
Flare belongs to the Bloom Time Collection, informed by TOVA’s research into financial forecasting, trading signals and emotional behaviour within structured systems. The work connects the logic of bloom with the logic of a signal: a visible event that appears after a hidden period of accumulation.
The black shell holds a red, white and black painting. Red carries acceleration and risk; white cuts through the surface as a moment of opening; black links the painted core to the protective body of the object. In this work, bloom is not decorative. It is a flare: a sudden point of visibility, when pressure, timing and stored energy become form.
Flare presents TOVA NUTS™ as a compact sculptural system where research is preserved through painting, shell and form.
 
Technical note
The artwork can be displayed in two formats: stand view and wall view.
Stand view: full height with base 87 cm, width 68 cm, depth 30 cm, base foot width 54.5 cm, total weight 22 kg.
Wall view: height without base 84 cm, width 68 cm, depth from wall 8 cm, weight without base and with the back part detached 5.5 kg.
The 22 kg weight refers to the complete object with its base, not to the sculptural body alone.